The book gives engineers the techniques and tools they need to use accelerated reliability testing (ART) and accelerated durability testing (ART) as key factors to accurately predict a product's quality, reliability, durability, and maintainability during given time (service life, warranty period, and other). The book covers a new ideas and unique approach to accurate simulation and integration of field inputs, safety, and human factors, as well as accelerated product development, as components of interdisciplinary systems engineering. Professionals will find in this book the answer how one can carry out ART and ADT technology in a practical manner. Learn how the implementation of ART and ADT can solve previously inaccessible problems in engineering, reduce product recalls, cost, and time during design, manufacture, and usage.

Preface xiAbout the Author xvii1 Introduction 11.1 The Purpose of Accelerated Testing (AT) 11.2 The Current Situation in AT 21.3 Financial Assessment of the Risks Involved in Creating a Testing Program 231.4 Common Principles of ART and ADT 261.5 The Level of Usefulness of ART and ADT 32Exercises 402 Accelerated Reliability Testing as a Component of an Interdisciplinary System of Systems Approach 432.1 Current Practice in Reliability, Maintainability, and Quality 432.2 A Description of the Product/Process Reliability and Durability as the Components of the Interdisciplinary SoS Approach 482.3 The Collection and Analysis of Failure and Usage Data from the Field 512.4 Field Input Infl uences 572.5 Safety Problems as a Component of the Field Situation 582.6 Human Factors as a Component of the Field Situation 602.7 The Interconnection of Quality and Reliability 672.8 The Strategy to Integrate Quality with Reliability 692.9 The Place of ART/ADT in High Quality, Reliability, Maintainability, and Durability 75Exercises 773 The Basic Concepts of Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing 813.1 Developing an Accurate Simulation of the Field Situation as the Basic Component of Successful Accelerated Reliability Testing (ART) and Accelerated Durability Testing (ADT) 813.2 Conceptual Methodology for the Substantiation of a Representative Region for an Accurate Simulation of the Field Conditions 913.3 Basic Procedures of ART and ADT 973.4 ART and LCC 115Exercises 1224 Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing Methodology 1254.1 Analysis of the Current Situation 1254.2 Philosophy of ART/ADT 1314.3 ART/ADT Methodology as a Combination ofDifferent Types of Testing 134 4.4 Accelerated Multiple Environmental Testing 1414.5 Accelerated Corrosion Testing 1494.6 Technology of Advanced Vibration Testing 1854.7 Field Reliability Testing 1914.8 Trends in the Development of ART/ADT Technology 191Exercises 1955 Equipment for Accelerated Reliability (Durability) Testing Technology 1995.1 Analysis of the Current Situation with Equipment for Accelerated Reliability (Durability) Testing 1995.2 Combined Equipment for ART/ADT as a Combination (Integration) of Equipment for Different Types of Testing 2075.3 Consideration of Components for ART/ADT and Combined (Integrated) Equipment Testing 2095.4 Equipment for Mechanical Testing 2315.5 Equipment for Multi-environmental Testing and Its Components 2645.6 Equipment for Electrical Testing 315Exercises 3166 Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing as a Source of Initial Information for Accurate Quality, Reliability, Maintainability, and Durability Prediction and Accelerated Product Development 3216.1 About Accurate Prediction of Quality, Reliability, Durability and Maintainability 3216.2 The Strategy for Accurate Prediction of Reliability, Durability, Maintainability and Quality, and Accelerated Product Development 3236.3 The Role of ART and ADT in the Accurate Prediction and Accelerated Development of Quality, Reliability, Maintainability, and Durability 349Exercises 3507 The Financial and Design Advantages of Using Accelerated Reliability/Durability Testing 353Exercises 3578 Accelerated Reliability Testing Standardization 3598.1 Overview and Analysis 3598.2 IEC Standards 3628.3 ISO Standards 3678.4 Military Reliability Testing Standards and Appropriate Documents 3678.5 Standardization in Reliability (Durability) Testing by Societies 370Conclusions 373Common Conclusions 373Specific Conclusions 373Glossary of Terms and Definitions 375References 393Index 407